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David Cameron attempted to rebuild his battered relationship with Tory members
last night after allegations that one of his inner circle labelled the
party’s activists “mad, swivel-eyed loons”.

As Lord Feldman, the party’s co-chairman, again denied making the comments,
the Prime Minister wrote a highly personal note to all party members in an
attempt to limit the damage done by the row. However, he appeared to deny
that a member of his team had made the remarks.

“Time and again, Conservative activists like you stand for duty, decency and
civic pride,” he wrote in an e-mail to party members last